Applied theory, praxis, and other scholarly hybrids offer important knowledge meant to support and benefit a variety of populations, in and beyond academe. This scholarship increasingly has been represented by interdisciplinary and cross-geographical partnerships. Still, such collaborative exercises in applied theory have tended to occur among certain disciplines more so than in others.
Increasingly, work is being done to address the absences, especially via collaboration between the digital humanities and the social sciences; Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics accordingly is meant to show how certain topics can be intriguingly understood when positioned at these disciplinary intersections. Specifically, when agricultural topics are debated in public contexts, ways in which these topics are examined by the social sciences also can illuminate how best practices in mediated technical ag communication constitute the digital humanities in action.
The collection’s premise is demonstrated specifically via case studies of agricultural exigencies as they publicly, discursively evolve. Cultivating Spheres is motivated by technical communication’s handling of agricultural changes that even in the past five years have destabilized what once were conventional forms of expression regarding all things food.
This special collection is edited by Dr. Adrienne P. Lamberti, University of Northern Iowa, USA.
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Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics
From Big Ag to Campus Cafeterias: Intersections of Food-Supply Networks as Technical Communication Pedagogy
Jessie Lynn Richards, Joshua Lenart, David Sumner and Douglas Christensen
2018-11-23 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 36
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Knowing Bass: Accounting for Information Environments in Designing Online Public Outreach
Stacey Pigg and Benjamin J. Reading
2018-12-18 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 42
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‘…Darn Thing Just Kind of Fell Together by Itself after a While’: Exploring the Role of Official and Tactical Communication in Siting a Rural Wind Farm
Michael Knievel
2019-01-09 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 3
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Navigating a Tangled Intersection: Agricultural Communication as Public Meeting Space among the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Digital
Adrienne P. Lamberti
2019-02-05 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 11
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Humour as a Human Right
Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery
Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Cultural Representations of Machine Vision
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
Medieval Minds and Matter
Representing the Medieval in Popular Culture: Remembering the Angevins
The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty
Production Archives 03: Archival Practices
Production Archives 02: Production Contexts
Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century
The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine
Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age
Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture
Reading in Ruins: Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies
The Language of Perspective
Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
The Working-Class Avant-Garde
Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State
Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918–2018
Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis
Muslims in the Media
Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia?
Waste: Disposability, Decay, and Depletion
Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation
New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records
Utopian Art and Literature from Modern India
Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives
Representing Climate: Local to Global
Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics
Freedom After Neoliberalism
The Medieval Brain
Remaking Collections
New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies
Imaginaries of the Future 01: Bodies and Media
Imaginaries of the Future 02: Politics, Poetics, Place
Imaginaries of the Future 03: Utopia at the Border
Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
Station Eleven and Twenty-First-Century Writing
#Agreement20
What’s Left? Marxism, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century
New Voices in Jewish-American Literature
Authors, Narratives, and Audiences in Medieval Saints’ Lives
From TV To Film
American Literature & the Transnational Marketplace
Mnemosyne
Healing Gods, Heroes and Rituals in the Graeco-Roman World
The Abolition of the University